This 5-day instructor-led course introduces SQL Server 2012 and describes logical table design, indexing and query plans. It also focusses on the creation of database objects including views, stored procedures, along with parameters, and functions. Other common aspects of procedure coding, such as transactions, concurrency, error handling, triggers, and SQL CLR are also covered in this course. Also this course helps you prepare for the Exam 70-464

All the labs for this course can be performed using the provided virtual machines. However, if you have a Microsoft Windows Azure account and the classroom virtual machines connect to the internet you may be able to connect to your Azure server and database from the classroom. Many of the labs in this course are enabled for you to perform the lab while connected to your own Azure database in the cloud. Your instructor should be able to provide a current list of Azure enabled labs.

Below are the some of the new features of SQL Server that has been discussed in this course

Use of SC collations

Use of TRY_PARSE, TRY_CONVERT

Detailed discussion on IDENTITY constraints

Working with SEQUENCES

Slight course reordering to improve overall flow

Use of THROW and comparisons to RAISERROR

Full-globe and arc support in spatial

Customizable nearness in full-text

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this course is IT Professionals who want to become skilled on SQL Server 2012 product features and technologies for implementing a database.

At Course CompletionAfter completing this course, students will be able to:•Introduce the entire SQL Server platform and its major tools. It will cover editions, versions, basics of network listeners, and concepts of services and service accounts.•Determine appropriate data types to be used when designing tables, convert data between data types, and create alias data types.•Be aware of good design practices regarding SQL Server tables and be able to create tables using T-SQL. (Note: partitioned tables are not covered).•Implement PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, DEFAULT, CHECK and UNIQUE constraints, and investigate cascading FOREIGN KEY constraints.•Determine appropriate single column and composite indexes strategies.•Create tables as heaps and tables with clustered indexes. Also consider the design of a table and suggest an appropriate structure.•Read and interpret details of common elements from execution plans.•Design effective non-clustered indexes.•Design and implement views•Design and implement stored procedures.•Work with table types, table valued parameters and use the MERGE statement to create stored procedures that update data warehouses.•Design and implement functions, both scalar and table-valued. (Also describe where they can lead to performance issues).•Perform basic investigation of a deadlock situation and learn how transaction isolation levels affect application concurrency.•Use both traditional T-SQL error handling code and structured exception handling.•Design and implement DML triggers•Learn appropriate uses for SQL CLR integration and implement an existing .NET assembly within SQL Server.•Store XML data and schemas in SQL Server.•Perform basic queries on XML data in SQL Server.•Work with the GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY data types•Implement and query a full-text index.

PrerequisitesIn addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:

Knowledge of writing T-SQL queries.

Knowledge of basic relational database concepts.

Students who attend this training can meet the prerequisites by attending the following courses, or obtaining equivalent knowledge and skills:10774A: Writing T-SQL Queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to SQL Server 2012 and its Toolset

Module 2: Working with Data Types

Module 3: Designing and Implementing Tables

Module 4: Ensuring Data Integrity through Constraints

Module 5: Planning for SQL Server 2012 Indexing

Module 6: Implementing Table Structures in SQL Server 2012

Module 7: Reading SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans

Module 8: Improving Performance through Nonclustered Indexes

Module 9: Designing and Implementing Views

Module 10: Designing and Implementing Stored Procedures

Module 11: Merging Data and Passing Tables

Module 12: Designing and Implementing User-Defined Functions

Module 13: Creating Highly Concurrent SQL Server 2012 Applications

Module 14: Handling Errors in T-SQL Code

Module 15: Responding to Data Manipulation via Triggers

Module 16: Implementing Managed Code in SQL Server 2012

Module 17: Storing XML Data in SQL Server 2012

Module 18: Querying XML Data in SQL Server

Module 19: Working with SQL Server 2012 Spatial Data

Module 20: Working with Full-Text Indexes and Queries

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